Posted on 11/12/2022 7:56:35 AM PST by SoConPubbie
On Thursday, Trump posted a lengthy message on Truth Social, nicknaming DeSantis “DeSanctimonious.” He diminished DeSantis’ handling of Covid and insisted that he is responsible for the Republican governor’s success. Trump said,
“Now that the midterms are over, and a success…
NewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post (bring back Col!), is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations, who didn’t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors, whose overall numbers for a Republican, were just average – middle of the pack – including COVID, and who has the advantage of SUNSHINE, where people from badly run States up North would go no matter who the Governor was, just like I did!
Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017 – he was politically dead, losing in a landslide to a very good Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was loaded up with cash and great poll numbers. Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win. I didn’t know Adam so I said, “Let’s give it a shot, Ron.” When I Endorsed him it was as though, to use a bad term, a nuclear weapon went off. Years later, they were the exact words that Adam Putnam used in describing Ron’s Endorsement. He said, “I went from having it made, with no competition, to immediately getting absolutely clobbered after your Endorsement.” I then got Ron by the “Star” of the Democrat Party, Andrew Gillum (who was later revealed to be a “Crack Head”), by having two massive Rallies with tens fo thousands of people at each one.
I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart. I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, jus prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen. And now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, “I’m only focused on the Governor’s race, I’m not looking into the future.” Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer…
This is just like 2015 and 2016, a Media Assault (Colusion!), when Fox News fought me to the end until I won, and then they couldn’t have been nicer or more supportive. The Wall Street Journal loved Low Energy Jeb Bush, and a succession of other people as they rapidly disappeared from sight, finally falling in line with me after I easily knocked them out, one by one. We’re in exactly the same position now. They will keep coming after us, MAGA, but ultimately, we will win. Put America First and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
On Friday morning, Trump posted about Youngkin, pointing out how much he helped the Virginia governor win the election, and how Youngkin “couldn’t have come close to winning” without his help.
“Young Kin (now that’s an interesting take. Sounds Chinese, doesn’t it?) in Virginia couldn’t have won without me. I Endorsed him, did a very big Trump Rally for him telephonically, got MAGA to Vote for him – or he couldn’t have come close to winning. But he knows that, and admits it. Besides, having a hard time with the Dems in Virginia – But he’ll get it done!”
Laxalt is gone so if Walker loses which l think is very likely Biden has an open field to pack the court and add DC and Puerto Rico as states and the Green New Deal nightmare too. This election really was our last chance and thank the GOPe for accepting the 20 steal to set this up.
Laxalt is gone so if Walker loses which l think is very likely Biden has an open field to pack the court and add DC and Puerto Rico as states and the Green New Deal nightmare too. This election really was our last chance and thank the GOPe for accepting the 20 steal to set this up.
Trump, to his credit, taught us how to run nationally without having to compromise with the Establishment. Run on his model, but without the mean tweets, and someone like DeSantis, Youngkin, or any Republican wins. You just have to learn how to run around the Establishment-media echo chamber.
As long as DeSantis and Youngkin don’t become beholden to the establishment. And it won’t be that easy to do.
That's always been my problem, not with Trump, but with the Trumpkins. You can't say so much as "I don't like that tie with that suit" or they'll jump down your throat trying to destroy you.
I want the best candidate, one who can win and will stand for our values. Maybe that's Trump; maybe it's DeSantis; maybe it's someone else. I don't know. But it's abotu the ideas and not the personalities, and this blind attachemnt to everything Trump says or does -- like the 0bama personality cult -- is harmful.
Also, the president who gave us “fifteen days to stop the spread” — and attacked other governors for re-opening too early — shouldn’t be attacking DeSantis for locking down when with DeSantis, it really was a short-term thing and “fifteen days to stop the spread” turned into at least 730 days or more.
And if her were gracious enough to say that they’re building on the foundation he laid, nobody would mind his ego so much.
Something on the order of “My administration did great things; we laid a great foundation to Make America Great Again. Governors like Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin are building on that foundation and making their states great again. I’m proud of the work they’re doing” would get Trump’s “I built this” point across while building up, rather than tearing down, Republican governors who are carrying his work forward.
I’m over him as well. He’s acting childish going after good candidates from our party. I want him to work in the background- not run again. If he and DeSantis decide to run in 2024 it will split the vote and we will lose, again.
Article about Trump not spending his money on candidates as well. How selfish was it for Trump to do the same?
With an insanely unpopular President, compared to Obama’s mid term shellacking? Yes, it’s a failure.
We will never know
You support the nominee the week before the election. If DeSantis had endorsed O’Dea in the primary, that would be concerning. But he was trying to win an extra GOP seat. We could really use that right about now.
I feel the same and there needs to be an honest and open debate on the issues, all our candidates' successes and failures, and their health before we decide who the nominee in 2024 will be. To expect a coronation for 2024 before the 2022 election is even over is ridiculous.
No argument from me that the Dems are far worse than Trump.
” Run on his model, but without the mean tweets, and someone like DeSantis, Youngkin, or any Republican wins. You just have to learn how to run around the Establishment-media echo chamber.”
Right. You just have to learn how to win without the media and how to not be beholden to the GOP or their mega-donors.
Good luck with that.
O'Dea shouldn't have trashed the "titular head" of our party on TV a week before the election. It hurt our long list of candidates endorsed by our titular head and it apparently didn't stop O'Dea from losing big.. There is plenty of time after the election to choose and reject presidential candidates.
Would I still vote for O'Dea? Probably.
Would I endorse O'Dea without adding a qualifier. Probably not.
I certainly wouldn't say that I'm "impressed" with him.
It’s the timing that’s the problem. Trump sometimes speaks when he ought to hold his fire.
I addressed the timing issue in my last post.
O'Dea's poor timing trashing Trump and by extension Trump's long list of MAGA candidates.
DeSantis several days later saying that he was impressed with O'Dea.
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